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Written by Teri L. Hansen (Marquette Tribune) with contributions from McPherson Center for Health On May 21, McPherson County voters will cast ballots in a special election to extend a half-cent sales tax that benefits the McPherson Center for Health, Lindsborg Community Hospital and Mercy Hospital....

McPHERSON --- The McPherson County Community Foundation (MCCF) Mastermind McPherson County is entering its second year of community benchmarking. Mastermind McPherson County is a three-year program set on creating a process to review and act on county needs. This will be a collaborative program with involvement...

CASA's Annual Shirt fundraiser will help CASA, provide more training for our volunteers and retain their current volunteers. The opportunity will help them recruit more volunteers to help children in the community. Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)  is a trained adult who is appointed by a...

Members of the Lindsborg community, this is your opportunity to get involved in the decision-making process of grant allocation. The David J. Nutt Fund is hosting a survey to gather public opinion on what applications would best suit the mission of the fund. David J....

One of our Mastermind McPherson County Grants is in progress! The McPherson Chamber of Commerce is currently collecting the contacts of McPherson County Nonprofits that seek volunteers. These contacts will be put into a database hosted on the McPherson Chamber of Commerce’s website. This database will serve...

[caption id="attachment_5414" align="alignright" width="496"] The database will be a constantly updated resource for searching for specific needs.[/caption] The McPherson County Community Coalition, established in the hopes of bringing community leaders together to identify community issues, is nearing completion of a project that can simplify how those...

Something to keep in mind with Match Week approaching is the utilization of your Qualified Charitable Deductions (QCD) from your IRAs Required Minimum Distribution (RMD). What is an RMD? An RMD is your required minimum distribution that you must begin withdrawing from your individual retirement account (IRA)...

   The McPherson County Community Foundation’s (MCCF) annual matching event enters its ninth year of helping build the endowments of local partnering non-profits. Match Week, formally known as Match Day, will take place during the week of Mar. 4-8. A total of $591,000 was raised...

In December, a Donor Advised Fund gave us at the Foundation the opportunity to schedule Music on Site to perform the Christmas Opera ‘Amahl and The Night Visitor'. ‘Amahl and the Night Visitors’ is an opera in one act by Gian Carlo Menotti that follows a...